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  Sir Spencer Walpole - LoveToKnow 1911
SIR SPENCER WALPOLE (1839-1907), English historian and civil servant, was born on the 6th of February 1839.
Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807-1898), thrice home secretary under Lord Derby, and through his mother was grandson of Spencer Perceval, the Tory prime minister who was murdered in the House of Commons.
Among his other publications come his lives of Spencer Perceval (1894) and Lord John Russell (1889), and a volume of valuable Studies in Biography (1906); and he wrote the section of the article English History, dealing in detail with the reign of Queen Victoria, for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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 Spencer Horatio Walpole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walpole was the second son of Thomas Walpole and Lady Margaret Perceval, youngest daughter of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont and sister of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
Walpole then turned to politics, and in 1846 he was elected to Parliament for Midhurst as a Tory, a seat he would hold until 1856.
In 1856 Walpole was elected to Parliament for Cambridge University.
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 Spencer Walpole Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807-1898), three times home secretary under Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and through his mother was grandson of Spencer Perceval, the Tory prime minister who was murdered in the House of Commons.
Spencer Walpole was educated at Eton, and from 1858 to 1867 was a clerk in the War Office, then becoming an inspector of fisheries.
His family connexions gave him a natural bent to the study of public affairs, and their mingling of Whig and Tory in politics contributed, no doubt, to that quality of judicious balance--inclining, however, to the Whig or moderate Liberal side--which, together with his sanity and accuracy, is so characteristic of his writings.
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 Spencer Perceval - LoveToKnow 1911
SPENCER PERCEVAL (1762-1812), prime minister of England from 1809 to 1812, second son of John, 2nd earl of Egmont, was born in Audley Square, London, on the 1st of November 1762.
Perceval was a vigorous debater, specially excelling in replies, in which his thorough mastery of all the details of his subject gave him a great advantage.
He married in 1790 and had six sons and six daughters; one of the latter married Spencer Horatio Walpole (d.
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 'Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life' (6).
Walpole to know that the object of the application made to him was simply the return home of the political wanderer in whom the Government had taken such complimentary but mistaken interest.
Secretary Walpole to inform you that, since the date of my answer to your application, the law officers of the Crown have been consulted and have expressed the opinion that it is not advisable to take any further steps in the prosecution in question.
Walpole was under no necessity of showing civility to one reputed to be a friend of Orsini and Dr. Bernard, however distinguished his social position might be.
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 Manx Quarterly #3 p255/ - Memorial Notices
The announcement of the death of Sir Spencer Walpole, K.C.B., was made in the Isle of Man on July 8th, and it occasioned much regret throughout the Island.
A grandson of Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister who was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, and the son of Mr Spencer Walpole, three times Conservative Home Secretary, Sir Spencer had behind him a tradition of public service.
Spencer Perceval," " Foreign Relations," " The Electorate and the Legislature," "Life of Lord John Russell," and "A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815." This undertaking occupied from 1878, when the first volume was published, until 1886, when the fifth and last appeared.
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 Sir Spencer Walpole
English historian and civil servant, was born on the 6th of February 1839.
Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807-1898), three times home secretary under Lord Derby, and through his mother was grandson of Spencer Perceval, the Tory prime minister who was murdered in the House of Commons.
He was educated at Eton, and from 1858 to 1867 was a clerk in the War Office, then becoming an inspector of fisheries.
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 Chapter Wace <i>to</i> Warburton of W by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
Walpole, Horatio or Horace (1717-1797).—Miscellaneous writer, third son of Sir Robert Walpole, the great minister of George II., was born in London, and ed.
Spencer Walpole, Home Sec., in the three Derby Cabinets, belonged to the same family as Sir Robert Walpole Ed.
He also wrote Lives of Spencer Percival, Prime Minister 1809-12, who was assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons in the latter year, and who was his maternal grandfather, and of Earl Russell.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for spencer
Spencer, George John Spencer, 2d Earl 1758-1834, British public official.
Hartington, Spencer Compton Cavendish, marquess of see Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th duke of.
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 Cambridge University Library Online
This collection of papers relating to the two Tory ministries of the duke of Portland and of Spencer Perceval was purchased by Cambridge University Library in January 1988 from the historian Sir John Plumb, together with correspondence of the eighteenth-century politician Thomas Walpole (Add.
While some of the papers were apparently used by Sir Spencer Walpole in his pioneering study of Perceval which appeared in 1874, it appears that they subsequently became detached from the Perceval papers now at the British Library (BL Add.
Reginald Walpole's lists, although in need of some adjustment and correction, have been preserved as the basis of current classification, in part because they are themselves apparently based upon an earlier classification.
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 thePeerage.com - Isabel Jane Perceval and others
Spencer Horatio Walpole and Isabella Perceval, on 23 June 1870.
Spencer Horatio Walpole was born on 11 September 1806.
Spencer Horatio Walpole, son of Thomas Walpole and Margaret Perceval, on 6 October 1835.
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 Walpole — FactMonster.com
Sir Spencer Walpole - Walpole, Sir Spencer, 1839–1907, English historian.
Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford - Walpole, Horace or Horatio, 4th earl of Orford, 1717–97, English author; youngest son of Sir...
Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford - Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford, 1676–1745, English statesman.
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 Civil Government in the United States Considered with eBook
Among the most valuable books ever written on the proper sphere and duties of civil government are Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics, London, 1851; The Study of Sociology, 9th ed., London, 1880; The Man versus The State, London, 1884; they are all reprinted by D. Appleton and Co., New York.
The views expressed in Social Statics with regard to the tenure of land are regarded as unsound by many who are otherwise in entire sympathy with Mr.
Spencer’s views, and they are ably criticised in Bonham’s Industrial Liberty, N.Y., 1888.
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 SIR SPENCER WALPOLE BIOGRAPHY - LIFE - HISTORY - BOOKS - FACTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A short biography of SIR SPENCER WALPOLE, including life and history; from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin
This summary of interesting facts about SIR SPENCER WALPOLE is taken from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin.
Shows when SIR SPENCER WALPOLE was born and when died.
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 Amazon.com: "Spencer Walpole": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Chairmen of the Great Western Railway
Rt Hon Spencer Walpole, 1855 - 56, 1863
When Charles Russell retired as Chairman in 1855, Walpole agreed to temporarily take over the post during the 1855 Parliamentary recess and began an enquiry into the company's financial affairs.
Walpole again acted as temporary Chairman in 1863 upon the resignation of Lord Shelburne to oversee the inauguration of the Amalgamation Act.
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 Walpole's History of England-The Conservative Opposition (The Nation, July 15, 1880)
Walpole's History of England-The Conservative Opposition (The Nation, July 15, 1880)
This article focuses on Spencer Walpole's astounding feat of parliamentary statesmanship on Robert Peel in Great Britain.
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 Free Books > Tags > Spencer
Agnosticism and religion : being an examination of Spencer's Religion of the unknowable : preceded by a history of agnosticism by Lucas
An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Herbert Spencer by Willtam Henery Hudson
By Ellen Spencer Clawson And Ellen Pratt Mcgary
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 Walpole Products
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1995)
Walpole NH Photo Postcard Railroad Tracks Near CT River
56 Dickens Village Walpole Tailors 1988 MIB Ret.
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 christmas pudding marks 26 spencer information -- christmas pudding marks 26 spencer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At 6 PM we walk to Marks and Spencer, a department store, for a reception they...
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 Manuscripts Department - Papers of Spencer Perceval
MSS 49173-49195) for they are nowhere cited by Perceval's most important modern biographer, Denis Gray (MUP, 1963).
The papers provide a most useful insight into the working of both administrations, comprising as they do some of Perceval's most intimate political correspondence both as chancellor of the exchequer under Portland (1807-1809) and subsequently as prime minister (1809-1812).
MS 8713 is open to all holders of full Library reader's tickets.
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 The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - No. XIV
To make the history of the times intelligible, and yet to avoid making long detached quotations from newspaper files, we may once more avail ourselves of Mr Spencer Walpole’s History of England from 1815.
He relates how, in the Session of 1818, Lord Archibald Hamilton drew attention to the case of Montrose, and afterwards threatened to bring up the whole subject of the condition of the burghs.
Public opinion having been thus aroused, the Lord Advocate introduced a bill for the better regulating of the revenues of the royal burghs of Scotland.
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 Free Books > Tags > Walpole
The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Letter Of Horace Walpole Vol-Xvi by Mrs.
The Letters Of Horace Walpole Vol-Vi by Mrs.
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 SIR SPENCER WALPOLE (1... - Online Information article about SIR SPENCER WALPOLE (1...
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England from 1815 (1878-1886), in six volumes, was carried down to 1858, and was continued in his History of Twenty-Five Years (1904).
Among his other publications come his lives of Spencer Perceval (1894) and Lord See also:
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 Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Minister Adams remained six years longer in England; then returned to America to lead a busy life till he died in 1886 still holding the same faith in Earl Russell, who had died in 1878.
In 1889, Spencer Walpole published the official life of Earl Russell, and told a part of the story which had never been known to the Minister and which astounded his son, who burned with curiosity to know what his father would have said of it.
The story was this: The Alabama escaped, by Russell's confessed negligence, on July 28, 1862.
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 Anti Essays : : Lord Liverpool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On the face of it, the year 1822 did mark a significant turning point in the way Lord Liverpool’s administration dealt with its domestic policy.
The importance of the cabinet reshuffle after the imminent death of Lord Castlereagh in 1822, and the perceived move toward‘ Liberal Toryism’ following this date has been well documented by a number of early historians, including W.R Brock and Spencer Walpole.
Free Trade was a highly debated issue throughout the early nineteenth century.
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Herbert Spencer has always ascribed to me, though I fancy they have, for the most part, remained in a latent state.
And this leads me to quote words written by an old friend and colleague of his, Sir Spencer Walpole:-- Of all the men I have ever known, his ideas and his standard were, on the whole, the highest.
It is true that the theologians and supernaturalists have erected their scaffolding around the building of social and human morality, vowing that it will not stand without.
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 I29174: Brent Spencer Follett (ABT 1809 - 23 JAN 1886)
I29174: Brent Spencer Follett (ABT 1809 - 23 JAN 1886)
Execs Wm.Webb Spencer Follett of 3 Stone Buildoings, Lincoln's Inn & John Skirrow Follett of 3 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, sons of decsd.
Descendants of Brent Spencer Follett and Caroline Amelia Skirrow
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